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πολισσονόμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολισσονόμος πολισσονόμον

Structure: πολισσονομ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: po/lis, ne/mw

Sense

  1. managing or ruling a city, of social order

Examples

  • νῦν γὰρ μέλλουσι μιανθεῖσαι πειραὶ κοπάνων ἀνδροδαί̈κτων ἢ πάνυ θήσειν Ἀγαμεμνονίων οἴκων ὄλεθρον διὰ παντόσ, ἢ πῦρ καὶ φῶσ ἐπ’ ἐλευθερίᾳ δαίων ἀρχάσ τε πολισσονόμουσ πατέρων <θ’> ἕξει μέγαν ὄλβον. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode, anapests2)

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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